Thomas
@thomasfuchs.at
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📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us)
🔭 #astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space
🕹️ #retrocomputing
🐈 #cats
Ally. He/him.
📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us)
🔭 #astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space
🕹️ #retrocomputing
🐈 #cats
Ally. He/him.
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Reminder to get help for your mental health. I’m at my regular Ketamine appointment for depression.
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reminder to get help for your mental health. I’m at my regular Ketamine appointment for depression.
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chatbot lovers' undying desire to convince others of the superiority of their choice to regularly use chatbots, and to try & make nonusers feel some kind of fomo comes across as a need for social validation and hints at some internal conflict they're trying to resolve. good, I guess, if ineffective.
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
chatbot lovers' undying desire to convince others of the superiority of their choice to regularly use chatbots, and to try & make nonusers feel some kind of fomo comes across as a need for social validation and hints at some internal conflict they're trying to resolve. good, I guess, if ineffective.
Is he going to put that prize next to Tim Apple’s gold bar?
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Is he going to put that prize next to Tim Apple’s gold bar?
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Oh, it was glorious. I should write a blog post about it. news.microsoft.com/source/2000/...
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Oh, it was glorious. I should write a blog post about it. news.microsoft.com/source/2000/...
I’m announcing that I’m the proud winner of this years Eero’s Prize, given for outstanding achievements in cat herding.
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m announcing that I’m the proud winner of this years Eero’s Prize, given for outstanding achievements in cat herding.
Imagine being a World Cup soccer fan
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Imagine being a World Cup soccer fan
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an important read for at least 2 reasons:
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
an important read for at least 2 reasons:
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Guess that Metaverse idea didn’t have legs after all
he literally reformed and renamed the entire company around this. in a sane world, the board would fire him
Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc.
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Guess that Metaverse idea didn’t have legs after all
If you think this through from the perspective of Duolingo themselves, they should be extremely anti-AI because it threatens to make their main product completely obsolete as people will (if you believe the tech industry can pull it off) just have universal translators
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you think this through from the perspective of Duolingo themselves, they should be extremely anti-AI because it threatens to make their main product completely obsolete as people will (if you believe the tech industry can pull it off) just have universal translators
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and you might be tempted to say "don't be silly, that's not why" but literally all the media about interior design etc. that i follow is people going
WHERE DID THE COLOR GO???
color is back in a big way. people are sick to death of white and grey everything.
WHERE DID THE COLOR GO???
color is back in a big way. people are sick to death of white and grey everything.
not to harp on the way this administration exerts undue pressure on corporate America to reflect its racist attitudes or anything but Pantone just announced that its Color of the Year for 2026 will be "white"
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
and you might be tempted to say "don't be silly, that's not why" but literally all the media about interior design etc. that i follow is people going
WHERE DID THE COLOR GO???
color is back in a big way. people are sick to death of white and grey everything.
WHERE DID THE COLOR GO???
color is back in a big way. people are sick to death of white and grey everything.
They’re not in it for the long owl
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They’re not in it for the long owl
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Reader, we are now entering the point in our economy where even our video game consoles are experiencing shrinkflation.
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with 1TB SSD downgraded to 825GB listed at the same price — CFI-2116 revision emerges overseas on Amazon
Less storage for the same price doesn't sound like a good revision.
www.tomshardware.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reader, we are now entering the point in our economy where even our video game consoles are experiencing shrinkflation.
This is stuff that my CD player in the 80s did better.
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is stuff that my CD player in the 80s did better.
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Gallery of macOS software sins that can be described as software having had a Dye Job.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gallery of macOS software sins that can be described as software having had a Dye Job.
The exact same people who have been going on about "technical debt" for decades are now pushing "AI"-generated code.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The exact same people who have been going on about "technical debt" for decades are now pushing "AI"-generated code.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
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YOU HAVE TO CLICK A THING TO GET THE VOLUME SLIDER IT'S SO BAD
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
YOU HAVE TO CLICK A THING TO GET THE VOLUME SLIDER IT'S SO BAD
👹 Happy Krampus, everyone! (I do miss some of the traditions from where I'm from.)
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
👹 Happy Krampus, everyone! (I do miss some of the traditions from where I'm from.)
we used to be a real country
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
we used to be a real country
"But Spotify does this too!"
1. This isn't Spotify
2. Spotify does this because they copied their phone app without thinking
3. iTunes had it on top (on computers) for a quarter of a century
4. Basic human-computer interaction visual hierarchy: put important stuff on top
🧵
1. This isn't Spotify
2. Spotify does this because they copied their phone app without thinking
3. iTunes had it on top (on computers) for a quarter of a century
4. Basic human-computer interaction visual hierarchy: put important stuff on top
🧵
I used the Music app on macOS Tahoe for the first time today and I honestly thought it was broken.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"But Spotify does this too!"
1. This isn't Spotify
2. Spotify does this because they copied their phone app without thinking
3. iTunes had it on top (on computers) for a quarter of a century
4. Basic human-computer interaction visual hierarchy: put important stuff on top
🧵
1. This isn't Spotify
2. Spotify does this because they copied their phone app without thinking
3. iTunes had it on top (on computers) for a quarter of a century
4. Basic human-computer interaction visual hierarchy: put important stuff on top
🧵
Ok that’s a good one
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Ok that’s a good one
“Wait you just have a snake guy?”
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“Wait you just have a snake guy?”
I used the Music app on macOS Tahoe for the first time today and I honestly thought it was broken.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I used the Music app on macOS Tahoe for the first time today and I honestly thought it was broken.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.
The fucken main controls of the app are on the bottom of the window. Unbelievable to get basic things like this wrong.